Historicizing Myths in Contemporary India
Cinematic Representations and Nationalist Agendas in Hindi Cinema
1st Edition
Published on 3. February 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
210 pages
978-1-032-42521-4 (ISBN)
Description
This book examines cinematic practices in Bollywood as narratives that assist in shaping the imagination of the age, especially in contemporary India. It examines historical films released in India since the new millennium and analyses cinema as a reflection of the changing socio-political and economic conditions at any given period. The chapters in Historicizing Myths in Contemporary India: Cinematic Representations and Nationalist Agendas in Hindi Cinemas also illuminate different perspectives on how cinematic historical representations follow political patterns and market compulsions, giving precedence to a certain past over the other, creating a narrative suited for the dominant narrative of the present. From Mughal-e-Azam to Padmaavat, and Bajirao Mastani to Raazi, the chapters show how creating history out of myths validate hegemonic identities in a rapidly evolving Indian society.
The volume will be of interest to scholars of film and media studies, literature and culture studies, and South Asian studies.
The volume will be of interest to scholars of film and media studies, literature and culture studies, and South Asian studies.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate
Illustrations
1 s/w Abbildung, 1 s/w Zeichnung, 3 s/w Tabellen
3 Tables, black and white; 1 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
357 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-42521-4 (9781032425214)
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Swapna Gopinath | Rutuja Deshmukh
Historicizing Myths in Contemporary India
Cinematic Representations and Nationalist Agendas in Hindi Cinema
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Historicizing Myths in Contemporary India
Cinematic Representations and Nationalist Agendas in Hindi Cinema
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Routledge India
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Historicizing Myths in Contemporary India
Cinematic Representations and Nationalist Agendas in Hindi Cinema
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02/2023
1st Edition
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Persons
Swapna Gopinath is an associate professor of film and cultural studies at Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication, Pune, India. She is a Fulbright fellow and has completed postdoctoral research on urban spatiality and ideological dimensions in India. She writes on film and culture, and contextualizes contemporary India in the Global South. She also teaches film and culture at FLAME University, Pune, as a visiting faculty member.
Rutuja Deshmukh is a visiting faculty member of the Cinema Department at Savitribai Phule Pune University, India. She also teaches film and culture at FLAME University, Pune as a visiting faculty member. She is currently a research fellow at Symbiosis International University, Pune. Her research areas include popular cinema, popular cultures, and questions of gender and representation at the intersection of neoliberalism. Her work has previously appeared in Economic and Political Weekly, Jump Cut, The Feminist Review, The Wire, FemAsia, Countercurrents, and HimalSouthasian.
Rutuja Deshmukh is a visiting faculty member of the Cinema Department at Savitribai Phule Pune University, India. She also teaches film and culture at FLAME University, Pune as a visiting faculty member. She is currently a research fellow at Symbiosis International University, Pune. Her research areas include popular cinema, popular cultures, and questions of gender and representation at the intersection of neoliberalism. Her work has previously appeared in Economic and Political Weekly, Jump Cut, The Feminist Review, The Wire, FemAsia, Countercurrents, and HimalSouthasian.
Content
Foreword. 1. Of War and Intrigue: 'Medieval' as Represented on Indian Screen b2. Humayun and Mughal-e- Azam: History and the Contemporary 3. Re-texturing the Past: The Digital Image and the Contemporary Bollywood Historical 4. The Gender of War: National Masculinities and Hindutva in Bollywood War Cinema 5. "The Surgical Strike that Shook the Mughal Empire": Evacuation and distortion of histories in contemporary Hindi screen cultures 6. Raazi (2018): Spying for the Nation 7. Title: History into Myth: Popular Hindi Cinema and the Politics of "True Stories" 8. Bahujan Legend, Brahmanical telling: Decoding the lens of Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior 9. How Hindutva's 'other' views 'otherification': Pakistani response to Bollywood's Saffron myth making 10. "A Great Republic of Hurt Sentiments": Counter-histories, Nationalism, and the Controversy of the Historical